Forty or so authors wrote the articles that comprise the 66 ancient books of the Bible. This morally avaricious collection of plagiarized material was collated in 325AD at the First Council of Nicaea. To the detriment of humankind, this malevolent book is considered 'holy' by over 2.5 billion misguided souls.
If you study pre-Christian literature, you would come to know there is nothing 'holy' about this duplicitous manuscript.
Here are some excerpts from the book, "God's Problem - How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer."
For the simpletons that suggest, "it's not for us to know how God works," that's nothing more than a cop-out. As a living, breathing, thinking being on this planet, the question of "Why We Suffer" is a legitimate one considering what's purported to be one of the strongest characteristics of the deity depicted in the Bible. If you're going to mention "Love" and "God" in the same sentence, then this question is a legitimate one.
"If God sometimes intervenes in history to counteract the free will decisions of others - for example, when he destroyed the Egyptian armies at the exodus, or when he fed the multitudes in the wilderness in the days of Jesus, or when he counteracted the wicked decisions of the Roman governor Pilate to destroy Jesus by raising the crucified Jesus from the dead - if God intervenes sometimes to counteract free will, why does he not do so more of the time?"
The God of the Christian Bible remained eerily silent during the Holocaust, the Middle Passage (the Slave Trade and American Slavery), and Hiroshima - three of the darkest epochs in human history.
"Many people in our world take a smorgasbord approach to the Bible, picking and choosing what suits them and their views without acknowledging that the Bible is an extremely complex and intricate concatenation of views, perspectives, and ideas."
"There are millions of people in our world, for example, who suffer social estrangement because of their sexual orientation. Some of this social alienation originates among simpleminded Bible believers who insist that gay relationships are condemned in scripture."
"As it turns out, that is a debated issue, one on which serious scholars disagree. But apart from that, this condemnation of gay relations "because the Bible condemns it" is a a case of people choosing to accept the parts of the Bible they want to accept and ignoring everything else. The same books that condemn same-sex relations, for example, also require people to stone their children to death is they are disobedient, to execute anyone who does any work on Saturday or who eats pork chops, and to condemn anyone who wears a shirt made of two kinds of fabric. No special emphasis is placed on one of these laws over the others - they are all part of the biblical law. Yet in some parts of society, gay relations are condemned, while eating a ham sandwich during a lunch breaks on a Saturday workday is perfectly acceptable."
"Other books are morally dubious, especially those written by intellectual theologians or philosophers who wrestle with the question of evil in the abstract, trying to provide an intellectually satisfying answer to the question of theodicy. What I find morally repugnant about many such books is that they are so far removed from the actual pain and suffering that takes place in our world, dealing with evil as an 'idea' rather than as an experienced reality that rips apart people's lives."
How can we make sense of the Holocaust? How can we fathom the heartless extermination of six million Jews?
"The Jews were to be God's chosen people, elected by God to enjoy his special favor in exchange for their devotion to him. Were the Jews chosen for this?"
"As hard as it is to believe, there are Christians in the world who have argued that they were. This is one of the many ways in which anti-Semitism continues to thrive as much in our day as it did during the pogroms of eastern Europe, during the Inquisition, all the way back through the Middle Ages into the early period of the church. Right after the Second World War, the German Evangelical Conference at Darmstadt - in the country that was responsible for the genocide - claimed that Jewish suffering in the Holocaust had been a divine visitation and called upon Jews to stop rejecting and crucifying Christ."
"This was not German Christianity's finest moment. Any way you look at it, the vast majority of those who died in the Holocaust were innocent sufferers, people like you and me, uprooted from their homes, families, and careers and subjected to unspeakable cruelty."
How could God allow this to happen to six million Jews and another five million non-Jews who were exterminated as a direct result of the Holocaust?
According to the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database, between 1501 and 1866. over 12.5 million slaves were exported to Spain, Brazil, Great Britain, Netherlands, USA, France, and Denmark. Over half of those people died as a result of this abominable practice of forced, free, labor.
If the Christian God directly intervened BCE (Before the Common Era) and in the first century (as the Bible says He did), why would he not lend a hand to the millions of people who most certainly needed 'His' assistance?
If you believe the balderdash in the Bible, you've simply fallen for a Roman story, no more, no less.
